Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari
by K. A. Subramania Iyer | 1965 | 391,768 words
The English translation of the Vakyapadiya by Bhartrihari including commentary extracts and notes. The Vakyapadiya is an ancient Sanskrit text dealing with the philosophy of language. Bhartrhari authored this book in three parts and propounds his theory of Sphotavada (sphota-vada) which understands language as consisting of bursts of sounds conveyi...
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Verse 3.14.220
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.220:
啶掂た啶啷嵿い啷嵿く啶班啶ムお啷嵿ぐ啶оぞ啶ㄠい啷嵿さ啶距い啷� 啶むい啶膏啶むい啷嵿ぐ啷囙い啶� 啶� 啶曕啶班た啶ぞ 啷�
啶︵啶多啶ぞ啶︵た啶� 啶曕ぐ啷嵿ぎ啶曕ぐ啷嵿い啷嵿ぐ啶距う啶苦え啶苦ぎ啶苦い啷嵿い啶む啶掂ぞ啶� 啶曕げ啷嵿お啶む 啷� 啷ㄠエ啷� 啷�vibhaktyarthapradh膩natv膩t tatastatreti na kriy膩 |
d峁浥泍膩di岣� karmakartr膩dinimittatv膩ya kalpate || 220 ||220. In expressions like 迟补迟补岣� and tatra, actions like seeing do not bring out the agent, object etc. because in them, it is the meaning of their own case-ending which is predominant.
Commentary
It is now stated that expressions like 濒补濒补岣� pa艣ya, tatra pa艣ya cannot be given as examples where a word which denotes the meaning of a case-ending predominantly is connected with action.
[Read verse 220 above]
[In expressions like 迟补迟补岣� and tatra it is the notion of starting-point (补辫腻诲腻苍补) or that of location (补诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺) which is predominant and it is they which are manifested by actions like seeing and not the notions of agent and object. In other words, the action of seeing is connected, not with a bare relation, but with a concrete substance.]